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hang

[hang] / hæŋ /




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“Could we still hang out as friends?” he had asked through tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

So he managed to hang on - but by less than 0.2 seconds.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

My manager, Herb Nanas, told me to hang in there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

When it comes to financial stocks these days, investors seem most concerned about their ability to attract, and hang on to, customers’ cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

You hang from your knees, arms spread wide, opening yourself to the place that feels most like home.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

In November, Hasina was found guilty by a Dhaka court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to be hanged -- a verdict she described as "political vengeance dressed up as law".

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

It reminds me of the old joke about the guy in the Wild West who, before he was hanged for horse stealing, said “This will be a real lesson to me,” mournfully, from the scaffold.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

Eichmann - an architect of the Jewish Holocaust - was hanged in 1962, becoming the only person previously sentenced to death by an Israeli civil court.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

Speer was given a 20-year prison sentence while Fritz Sauckel, Hitler’s general plenipotentiary for labor mobilization, was hanged for almost exactly the same crimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Fra-gile-ness is mighty embarrassing, even if you’re a girl, so me and Emma both hanged back a little to get the sniffling out of us.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

"We borrowed some microphones, Kevin had built a small computer and we recorded the first album like that, basically just hanging out together," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Companies know the government sword is hanging over them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Tech is hanging in there, and everything else is just falling quite honestly in a straight line,” said Scott Brown, founder at Brown Technical Insights.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

President Donald Trump in April re-posted a claim on X by a pro-Israel youth activist in the United States that eight women faced death by hanging, with the US leader urging them to be spared.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Lucky there was no string of frogs hanging out by the hats this particular morning.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Clancy pleaded not guilty, and her trial recently ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

There was room for a five-month stay in Paris before the midfielder hung up his iconic Preds, winning Ligue 1 and waving an emotional goodbye in 2013.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

He wanted the surprise of artwork hung in an unpredictable fashion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Concerns that Meta is spending unsustainably on AI have hung over the stock in recent months.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The thought of those cuffs made me smile, and I found my hand going instinctively to my hip, where a set had hung during my simulation.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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